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In finland, there's one way to legally use those american style trucks for pulling semitrailers.

About 10 years ago, I saw a sleeper cab Scania T-model pulling a normal 13,6 meter semitrailer and got interested because it was clearly over the 16,5m length limit for the combination. The way he had made it legal, was that he had attached a second very short trailer behind the first trailer, and at that point the length limit for the truck and trailers changed to 25,25 meters with no limits on how long the truck itself can be, as long as the combination fulfils the turning requirements :p
 

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Only 1 is real on newer Peterbuilt's I guess and they retain a two to keep users happy?
 

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I've never seen 4 door sleeper cabs before. Had to circle back to take a photo of this one yesterday.

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Wow I've also never seen that before. I do wonder why though ...
 

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I think the question was "why crew cab (4 full doors). There are plenty of super long sleeper cabs around here, Reliable Auto Carriers loves their fancy trucks, but that was the first time I've seen that particular cab configuration.

Sticker reads "Private RV - Not for hire". I'll bet it's pulling a race car of some sort.

Trailer was 100% not a car carrier. Was a conventional enclosed dry goods trailer.
 

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I think the question was "why crew cab (4 full doors). There are plenty of super long sleeper cabs around here, Reliable Auto Carriers loves their fancy trucks, but that was the first time I've seen that particular cab configuration.

Yeah, exactly. I am aware of those "super cabs" :)
 

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Something like a rail car would not use a conventional car trailer anyway.
 
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